Could this guy kill 'American Idol'?
It's that time of the week, when we stop focusing on the campaign trail or the Supreme Court and focus on what must be the most important issue facing the United States right now: Who will become the next American Idol?
The article above offers the possibility that John Stevens isn't just an untalented singer whose legions of giggling fans are messing with the show's ability to call itself a talent competition, but also the potential destroyer of the program. This is terribly bad news for Fox, which is doubtless hoping to ride this show to ratings victory for many years to come. After a brief spat of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire style overexposure--Junior Idol, really?--the team at Fox seemed to have found a way to keep the show going without running it into the ground. But they appear to have met their match in the form of little girls and older women equipped with unlimited time, a redial button or text messaging capabilities, and either an adolescent crush on the unthreatening, asexual Stevens or a longing for a time when unthreatening, asexual folk like Stevens were the norm in the entertainment world.
Please, do your part to save Fox tonight by voting for La Toya and Fantasia. Much as I'd like to dance on Rupert Murdoch's grave, gut-punch Bill O'Reilly, and give Sean Hannity a nice kick in the crotch, I'm not so ungrateful as to wish death on the network that gave us The Simpsons.
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